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Author:   Christoph B. Ostertag ,  David G..T. Thomas ,  Andries Bosch ,  Bengt Linderoth
Publisher:   Springer Verlag GmbH
Imprint:   Springer Verlag GmbH
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Volume:   68
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 28.00cm
Weight:   0.409kg
ISBN:  

9783709173411

ISBN 10:   3709173418
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   08 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Surgical Treatments of Parkinson’s Disease.- Controversies in Pallidal Surgery.- Chronic Electrostimulation of Ventroposterolateral Pallidum: Follow-up.- Posteroventral Pallidotomy in Movement Disorders.- Selection Criteria for Unilateral Posteroventral Pallidotomy.- The Effects of Pallidotomy on Parkinson’s Disease: Study Design and Assessment Techniques.- Frameless 3D Volume Registration of MR Data Sets for Stereotactic Pallidotomy.- Unilateral Pallidotomy for Parkinson’s Disease Promptly Improves a Wide Range of Voluntary Activities — Especially Gait and Trunk Movements.- The Side-Effects and Complications of Posteroventral Pallidotomy.- Deep Brain Stimulation and Thalamotomy for Tremor Compared.- Pain.- Treatment of Deafferentation Pain by Chronic Stimulation of the Motor Cortex: Report of a Series of 20 Cases.- Psychosurgery.- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Right Hemisphere: Topographic Analysis of Lesions After Anterior Capsulotomy Performed with Thermocoagulation.- Epilepsy.- Lesionectomy in Epileptogenic Temporal Lobe Lesions: Preoperative Seizure Course and Postoperative Outcome.- Low Grade Glioma in Intractable Epilepsy: Lesionectomy versus Epilepsy Surgery.- Frameless Stereotaxy.- Incorporation of Ultrasonic Imaging in an Optically Coupled Frameless Stereotactic System.- Functional Imaging.- Magnetoencephalography (MEG) in Epilepsy Surgery.- Integration of Functional Brain Mapping in Image-Guided Neurosurgery.- Significant Reduction of Seizure Incidence and Increase of Benzodiazepine Receptor Density after Interstitial Radiosurgery in Low-Grade Gliomas.- Methodology.- Functional Neurosurgery Aided by Use of an Electronic Brain Atlas.- Gene Therapy.- Gene Transfer of Suicide Genes for the Treatment of Malignat Gliomas: Efficacy, Limitations, andPerspectives for a Combined Immunotherapy.- Anti-Angiogenic Gene Therapy of Malignant Glioma.- Gene Therapy in Brain Tumours: Implications of the Size of Glioblastoma on its Curability.- Radiosurgery.- Risk Analysis of LINAC Radiosurgery in Patients with Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM).- Effect of Linac Radiosurgery on Regional Cerebral Blood Flow, Glucose Metabolism and Sodium-Potassium ATP-ase in Skull Base Meningiomas and Metastasis.- Tumours.- Potential Role of in vitro 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in the Definition of Malignancy Grading of Human Neuroepithelial Brain Tumours.- Stereotactic Brain Biopsy Guided by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with [F-18]Fluorodeoxyglucose and [C-11]Methionine.- Glioma Cells Transduced with Selection Transgenes May Not Form Gliomas in vivo and Can Also Inhibit Glioma Formation by Admixed Wild Glioma Cell Lines.- Index of Keywords.

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